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Table 2 Misclassification rates throughout the recursive RF process

From: DNA methylation loci associated with atopy and high serum IgE: a genome-wide application of recursive Random Forest feature selection

Iteration

Number of variables

OOB-ER overall misclassification (%)

Non-atopic misclassification (%)

Atopic misclassification (%)

1

254,460

38.43

19.87

78.95

2

127,230

35.12

17.46

73.68

3

63,615

33.05

19.27

63.15

4

31,807

27.68

10.24

65.78

5

15,903

24.38

9.03

57.89

6

7,951

16.94

4.21

44.73

7

3,975

14.87

5.42

35.52

8

1,987

11.15

4.21

26.31

9

993

11.57

4.81

26.31

10

496

9.09

5.42

17.10

11

248

8.67

5.42

15.78

12

124

9.09

5.42

17.10

13

62

9.50

7.22

14.47

14

31

11.98

9.63

17.10

15

15

15.70

13.85

19.73

  1. OOB-ER out-of-bag error rate